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Tower Hill Illinois Map

Explore Tower Hill, Illinois, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Tower Hill, Illinois

How to Use This Tower Hill, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tower Hill, Illinois. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Illinois or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Tower Hill.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Tower Hill
State	Illinois (IL)
County	Shelby County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.387818
Longitude	-88.960632
Population	485
Density	186.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	62571
Area Code	217
County Seat	Shelbyville
School District	Pana Community Unit School District 8

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About Tower Hill, Illinois

Tower Hill is a locality in Shelby County, Illinois, United States. It is a small community with a population of 485. The population density is 186.3 people per km². Tower Hill is located at 39.3878°N, 88.9606°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tower Hill is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 62571.

Tower Hill emerges from the flat, expansive reach of the Illinois prairie as a quiet congregation of structures defined by the persistent, winding presence of Mitchell Creek. It lies 21.0 miles east-southeast of Taylorville, IL (from Taylorville, IL: bearing 122°T), and is situated 6.4 miles east of Pana. The earth here settles into a rhythmic flatness, broken only by the subtle, insistent rise of the terrain that gives the place its name, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Corley Ridge anchors the horizon to the west. In the golden light of late afternoon, the shadow of the landscape stretches thin and long, drawing attention to the way the soil shifts from dark, fertile loam to the persistent, unyielding clay near the water’s edge. Even at a distance of fifteen miles, the influence of Hidden Springs State Forest colors the breeze with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves, a reminder of the wilder, wooded pockets that exist beyond the cultivated grid of the fields.

Agriculture remains the singular, steady pulse of Tower Hill, where the economy is written in the seasonal language of corn and soybean cycles that dictate the pace of every passing day. The town bears the quiet weight of its nineteenth-century origins, maintaining a character forged by the persistence of those who first broke the sod to carve a life from the interior plains. Residents often look toward the nearby expanse of Lake Pana for a respite from the intensity of the harvest, or find a sense of quietude in the preserved greenery of Tanner Park, where the local children play as the sun dips below the flat line of the horizon. Life in Tower Hill moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, reflecting a world where the primary concerns are the temperament of the rain, the health of the crop, and the enduring strength of the community that gathers where the creek cuts its path through the silt.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tanner Park (Local Park) — 5.5 mi, 269° W
Kitchell Park (Local Park) — 6.2 mi, 265° W
CE&I Depot (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 273° W
Roseland Theatre (Cinema) — 6.5 mi, 270° W
NYC-IC RR Signal Tower (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 272° W
Ball Field (Local Recreation) — 8.3 mi, 083° E
Lake Shelbyville (Recreation Area) — 9.6 mi, 074° E
Margaret Guzy Pothole Wetlands State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.2 mi, 035° NE
Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.6 mi, 065° NE
Hidden Springs State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 14.0 mi, 115° SE
Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.6 mi, 211° SW
Taylorville Chautaugua Auditorium (Theatre) — 20.7 mi, 301° NW
Christian County Coal Mine Museum (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 302° NW
Taylorville Cinema (Cinema) — 21.1 mi, 302° NW
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 21.2 mi, 303° NW
Civil War Monument (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 034° NE
Illinois Central Depot (Attraction) — 21.4 mi, 033° NE
Two Story Outhouse (Attraction) — 25.3 mi, 079° E
Spitler Woods (State Park) — 27.2 mi, 011° N
Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum (Museum) — 29.0 mi, 129° SE
Cheetahs (Viewpoint) — 30.2 mi, 005° N
Fayette County Museum (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 194° S
Vandalia State House State Historic Site (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 194° S
Sangchris Lake State Resource Area (State Recreation Area) — 30.4 mi, 302° NW
G.A.R. Memorial (Monument) — 30.7 mi, 000° N
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 30.8 mi, 004° N
Staley Museum (Museum) — 31.5 mi, 360° N
Roberts Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 35.5 mi, 255° W
Fox Ridge State Park (State Park) — 41.9 mi, 087° E
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 74.5 mi, 239° SW · 32k acres

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